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The literature on English suggests that turn-initial no fulfils a variety of discourse-pragmatic functions beyond its use as a negative response to polar questions.
Elena N. Malyuga, Michael McCarthy
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Linking Discourse Marker Inventories.
The paper describes the first comprehensive edition of machine-readable discourse marker lexicons. Discourse markers such as and, because, but, though or thereafter are essential communicative signals in human conversation, as they indicate how an utterance relates to its communicative context.
Chiarcos, Christian, Ionov, Maxim
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Diskurtso-markatzaile berri bat: "hurrenez hurren" birformulatzailea
This article examines aspects of the use of a new discourse marker in present-day Basque, namely hurrenez hurren. First of all a distinction will be drawn between its two present senses: the adverbial notion of 'one after the other' (hurrenez hurren-1 ...
Xabier Alberdi
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Where lol Is: Function and Position of lol Used as a Discourse Marker in YouTube Comments
Lol is probably one of the most popular words in computer-mediated communication. It is generally taken to be the acronym of “laughing out loud”, but it is not always used to indicate a humorous response; rather, it is multifunctional.
Célia Schneebeli
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Monitoring discourse in translation: Analysis of the Qur’anic elaborative discourse marker “wa” in parallel corpora [PDF]
Discourse is monitored through the employment of discourse markers in the process of human communication. The present article investigated two translations of the most frequent, complex, and ambiguous Qur’anic discourse marker wa into the Persian ...
Ali Mohammadi
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Por outras palavras (in other words) and digamos (so to speak): reformulation markers?
With this study, we aim to continue the study of the reformulative markers in European contemporary Portuguese (Lopes 2014). Two new discourse markers, por outras palavras and digamos, are syntactically, semantically and pragmatically described in this ...
Ana Cristina Macário Lopes +1 more
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From Subordinate Marker to Discourse Marker: que in Andean Spanish
This paper proposes an analysis of a redundant use of que ('that') found in Andean Spanish as an expression which has undergone a grammaticalization process.
Renaud Beeckmans
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This paper explores the theoretical mechanisms of marking two discourse values, SURPRISE and IMPATIENCE, encoded in the syntax of Ghamdi dialect of Arabic (GA) by the discourse marker haweɪh, which instantiates the head Prt of PrtP.
Alshamari Murdhy, Al-Ghamdi Naimah
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WAIT : qu’attendre de ce marqueur de discours ?
Despite extensive literature on discourse markers, relatively little attention has been paid to the case of wait to date. The study presents the arguments for classifying certain uses of this term (those which are not integrated into the syntax of the ...
Blandine Pennec
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De voilà à voilà voilà L'évolution d'un marqueur discursif en français (19e - 20e siècles)
This paper deals with the discourse marker voilà, especially with its reduplicated variant voilà voilà, which first appeared in 19th century French. Examining utterances from the 19th and 20th century contained in the Frantext corpus, it describes the ...
Oppermann-Marsaux, Evelyne
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